Ni'Ray Cognitive Suplus Notes

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Know
  • Gin drinking provided a coping machanism for people
  • Industrilization didnt just create new ways for working, it created new ways of living
  • because tv goes in through the eyes as well as the ears it immobilizes even moderatley attentive users
  • in the whole of the developed world the three most common activities are now work,sleep, and watching tv












Want to know
  • why was so many people drinking gin around that time
  • why is it that watching to much tv mean that were unhappy











Learn
  • in the 1720s London was busy getting drunk
  • The Gin Craze was a real event
  • The population was growing at a historical rate due to living conditions, health problems, and all sorts of crime
  • London was the site of the biggest influx of population
  • Parliament seized on gin
  • Selling gin was made illegal
  • Someone born in the 1950s has watched something like fifty five thousand hours of Tv already, and may watch thirty thousand hours before she dies
  • Spending to much time watching TV on the other hand is linked to higher material aspiration and to raise anxiety